Social Issues Essays

The 2007 Post election violence in Kenya has by far been the most adverse form of ethno-political violence witnessed since the political freedom was wrestled from the hands of our colonial masters .Since the restoration of multiparty politics, with the repealing of section 2A in 1991, ethnic based violence has …

Population is the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. There are different types of population. Population distribution is defined as the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area and population density is the number of people living per unit of an …

HUL is India’s largest fast moving consumer good company and is a 51.55 percent owned subsidiary of the Anglo-Dutch Unilever, a Fortune 500 transnational. HUL employs 36,000 people and claims to touch the lives of two out of three Indians. The old Shakti Web site gives the following objective: “to …

We all think differently and I’m here to show you and try to convince you to see the other side. To see why public humiliation is wrong and shouldn’t be done. Everybody has their opinions. But sometimes we all need to look at things from the other perspective. I don’t …

Birmingham held a key role in the movement because of a number of reasons: whether it was through the activities of Bull Connor or the bombed church which killed four school girls, or the activity of the Ku Klux Klan which also had a stronghold in the Alabama capital which …

Actually every thing, every right, every facility is misused, in our country. Basically it was for the deserving people, but it has never reached to the right person. The creamy class among SC, ST, OBC, who are otherwise more rich and powerful, than any even General Category person, are taking …

Social Problems is the official publication of the The Society for the Study of Social Problems. A social problem is a condition that at least some people in a community view as being undesirable. Everyone would agree about some social problems, such as murders and DWI traffic deaths. Other social …

The basic question is not whether terrorism can be defeated; even third-rate dictatorships have shown that it can be put down with great ease. The real problem is the price that has to be paid by liberal societies valuing their democratic traditions. Over the last two decades considerable academic debate …

1.1. Identify current legislation, guidelines, policies and procedures for safeguarding the welfare of children and young people. All children have the right to be kept safe and looked after. The United Nations Convention on the rights of a child (1989) is a treaty that sets out the rights and freedoms …

Sport events are such events where people get a huge rush of adrenaline, they get excited, sad, exhausted, angry, etc. All of these are difficult emotions to deal with. Therefore, in many of us those emotions lead to violence. Is it alright to create a conflict because we cannot figure …